Meltdown

Meltdown is an annual arts festival held at at London's Southbank Centre. Peel was chosen to curate the 1998 event. As well as drawing up the programme, he also broadcast a selection of the music on his shows.

The eight nights of the event coincided with the 1998 World Cup, but the organizers installed screens to show matches.[1]. According to the BBC site, this "meant that one night, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci had to wait until after 11pm to take the stage whilst England lost to Argentina. (Nonetheless, Peel was happy because Liverpool's Michael Owen scored, so the match wasn't all bad!)."[2]